"Kirby!! Just what in the blue blazes are you doing here?!" King Dedede, the "King" of Dreamland asked the pink puffball.

"Poyo!"

"You're looking for someone? I don't care!! Answer my question first!" Dedede angrily inquired, Kirby had attempted to explain everything that happened to the king.

"Oh? These Yuyuko and Youmu girls just went missing? And Meta Knight is here as well?" Interesting!" Dedede stroked his chin.

Kirby looked curiously at the green gem on the Kong's cap, the puffball asked what it was.

"Oh this little thing? Uhhh... some random shadow type thing gave this thing to me in exchange for a quarter of my army. So I figured, why not?"

Dedede explained, "If I'm not mistaken, I believe he called this gem a 'chaos emerald'. Kind of a stupid name if you ask me."

The emerald didn't really look good on the king, but that didn't matter.

"Well since I don't have any reason to pound you into the ground. I'm going to head up to an auction, you coming?" Dedede asked Kirby, having no one to be with at the moment, decided to go along.

King Boo's crown turned a dark blue before bolts of lighting were fired at Yuyuko, whom which the latter had dodged gracefully. The Boo King opened his mouth and his blue tongue shot out of his mouth, taking the ghost princess by surprise as the tongue wrapped around her neck and lifted her further off of the ground.

"Haha! Did you really think you could outsmart me? The great King Boo?!" The Boo said, however it was difficult to make out due to his tongue being around someone's neck. Yuyuko struggled as she attempted to pry off the muscular organ.

"It's useless princess! I'm going to pop your head off! Not unlike a champagne bottle being opened!" King Boo boasted, Yuyuko stopped struggling and looked at the king, whom had stopped laughing to himself at this point?

"Huh? Why aren't you screaming?"

"Mr. Boo, there is something you should know about me... I've lived for so, SO, long. But I don't think I've ever met anyone like you," Yuyuko rambled to the king, "what I'm trying to say is, I enjoy challenges, as they require me to think a little, but the dilemma you put in front of me here has a surprisingly simple answer."

"Listen lady, I don't know what you're getting at but-" King Boo was cut off by Yuyuko as she bit into King Boo's tongue. Hard. The Boo let out the scream but the ghost wasn't done yet. Yuyuko kept tugging at the tongue more and more, until...

RRRRRIIIIIIP!!!

King Boo's dark blue tongue had been completely ripped from his mouth, and the Boo King couldn't believe what had just happened.

"I wonder how this would taste if you cooked it..." Yuyuko said as she inspected the tongue, the woman approached the king as the latter scurried away cowardly.

"G-get away from me!!! You're insane!!" King Boo said as his crown turned a bright orange and fireballs spilled out of the crown, Yuyuko quickly dodged them however.

"You aren't escaping, I have many things to ask you." Yuyuko said as she looked down at the king. King Boo sweat dropped as he fired more fireballs in Yuyuko's direction, who continued to dodge them. However, this time King Boo bolted toward a wall and phased through it.

Ah. So he was keeping me distracted wasn't he? No matter. Yuyuko thought as she approached the wall that King Boo phases through, but something felt off. The ghost princess looked around the room only to find that it had shrunk significantly! It was no bigger than a walk-in closet. She also couldn't even pass through the wall.

Well... this is unfortunate. Yuyuko thought to herself. But it wasn't over. The princess felt a warm coming from the opposite direction, she turned around to see that the wooden wall of the mansion was on fire!

This is also unfortunate! The fire Boo shot at me wasn't merely to fend me off, but it was also to scorch me as well. Yuyuko thought to herself as the fire spread even faster due to the wooden wall. But then, the ghost had an idea, it was quite unorthodox, but it could definitely work!

"Bidding will start in 5 minutes! We have gathered the plenty of valuable items today!"

King Dedede took a seat along with Kirby and a bunch of other ghosts in a auditorium.

"Ha! These ghosts don't look that special, I expect to make it out of here like a bandit!"

5 minutes later...

The bidding had started, the first item was a very fancy chair, which Dedede had claimed, and no one else challenged it, one new chair for Dedede.

The second item was a photo from King Boo, autographed by himself, no one took up the offer.

The third item was a antique vase, owned by a member of the Qing Dynasty at the end of the 19th century. It was a white glass vase with blue Chinese symbols on it. King Dedede showed interest in the vase and raised his hand claiming it, no one challenged and the king had a new vase.

The fourth item was a Crock Pot. It was used. Nobody claimed it.

The last item was a gohei, the ghosts really didn't know what it was used for, so they just put it up for sale.

"Eh? A stick with a piece of paper on it? I'll think I'll pass." Dedede said to Kirby, but then someone raised their hand.

"Ahem, I'll offer a hundred bits of gold for it!" A deeper voice said.

"Huh? Just a hundred? That's nothing, way Kirby, watch this!" The king cleared his throat and raised his hand, "I'll take it for a thousand bits! Heh heh, they'll never raise the-"

"Two thousand bits!" The voice said, the audience looked at King Dedede to see what he would say next.

"Why you...! 3,000 bits, I'll raise it for 3,000 bits!"

"4,000 bits!"

"5,000!"

"10,000!"

"...100,000!!!"

"Ugh!! 200,000 bits!"

"300,000!"

King Dedede went silent for a moment, the crowd kept looking at him for a response.

"300,000 going once! Going twice-"

"ONE BILLION BITS!!!" The king suddenly announced, the ghostly crowd gasped at the sudden callout, but it seemed to have worked, the rival bidder stayed silent.

"One billion going once... going twice... SOLD! To King Dedede!" The supplier said with vigor as he handed the gohei over to Dedede. And only then that's when he realized he made a grave mistake.

Why would I waste 1 billion gold on this thing?? The king questioned himself.

After the bidding was over Kirby and Dedede exited the auditorium, with the king still being shocked that he was outsmarted be some random person in the crowd. Meanwhile, Luigi and Sanae headed up to the two.

"Oh king? It's such an honor to meet you." Sanae said behind Dedede, he turned around to see a good friend of his, completely disregarding the shrine maiden.

"Luigi! It's bit such a long time since I've seen you!" The king said, Kirby seemed very happy to see the plumber as well.

"You too know each other?" Sanae inquired.

"Of course, me, King Dedede and Ness had all helped save everyone during the Subspace Emissary." Luigi explained.

"Huh... didn't play that one yet," Sanae said as she picked up Kirby, "Ohhhh~ he's soooooo cute! And squishy!"

"By the way, the bidding was fun." Luigi bought up, the king shook his head.

"Not for me. I lost too much money... wait, you guys were there?" Dedede asked.

"There? We were the ones competing for my gohei." Sanae said, it took a good minute for Dedede to process what she just said, when he did, he was furious.

"ARE YA KIDDING ME?!? I JUST LOST A LIFETIME'S WORTH OF GOLD FOR A YOUR STICK???" Dedede said angrily.

"Don't worry Mr. Dedede, we'll make it up to you, sooner or later..." Sanae said calming the penguin down.

"You'd better! Now let's go... Kirby?" Dedede looked around for the puffball but he wasn't there. Sanae look at her arms to see that he wasn't there either!

"Uh oh..." Luigi said nervously.

A particular smell had been released, and Kirby had been drawn to it like a moth to a flame, following it relentlessly. The smell had swept the puffball off his feet, and the small carried him to his location.

5 minutes later, Kirby reached his destination, it was pitch black, and the star warrior couldn't see anything.

"I'm so glad you could join us down here, sweetheart."

Kirby looked around for the voice but couldn't see anything, just then, out of nowhere his feet were frozen!

But, the puffball quickly smashed the ice into pieces with his stubby arm.

"How irksome. I figured I should have made the process quicker. But I guess I'll have to take the long road." The voice, Kirby frantically looked around for it, but to no avail.

As soon as the voice finished, toxic fumes circulated around the room. It smelled like roadkill and dead fish, except way worse. However, the fumes proved to be too much for Kirby, as he fell over, unconscious from the toxic gas.

An unknown amount of time later, Kirby woke up in a cold sweat, he was tied to a table, he tried to open his mouth, but he couldn't, as he came to the unfortunate realization that his mouth, his greatest weapon was rendered useless, as it had been sewed shut. He had no mouth.

He had no mouth.

He had no mouth.

But he must scream.

"You are a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth." A pair of heels clicked together as they approached the table, it was pitch black in the room but Kirby saw exactly what he was going up against.

"Such a cute little thing. I've always wondered what was inside of that bottomless stomach of yours..." The voice had gotten louder and louder until Kirby's captor was revealed to be Roxanne, the sweet lady from upstairs. She held a bloody scalpel in her hand.

"Please sweetheart... I'm not good with making incisions, so forgive me if I'm rough..." The ghost girl said as she prepared to cut up the puffball.

"So, there are more people in this mansion huh..." A voice said near the entrance of the basement.

"Oh... I've been expecting you... Alice Margatroid." Roxanne said turning to face the puppeteer.

"Yikes. What did you do to him?" Alice asked the ghost.

"How did you find me?" Roxanne said coldly.

"My dolls are spiritually linked to me, if you take apart my dolls, It's guaranteed I'll pick up on it."

"Interesting! Say... Alice, darling. Just what made you think I didn't know you would come down here?" Roxanne said as she snapped her fingers, and an army of Pokémon appeared from the shadows, their eyes were a dark purple, they seemed to be under an influence. But among all of the critters, Pikachu was in the front, his eyes blank, staring into space.

"My precious little servants!! The little wench in front of you is your enemy. Make sure she's out of commission." Roxanne ordered the Pokémon, and all of a sudden, the creatures grew hostile and charged towards the magician. Foam escaping their mouths as the tried to reach her first. Alice took once step back, but as she did a feral Greninja fell on her and kept her in place. Alice remained unflinching.

"Roxanne... I thought you were a nice person. But you proved me wrong." Alice said, "just what made you think I came unprepared for something like this?!"

An army of puppets came from under Alice's skirt. Taking the ghost girl by surprise. One puppet stabbed the Greninja that was holding her in the eye. The frog ninja keeled over. The puppet army was overwhelming the Pokémon, until a few Wobbuffet's stepped up and activated Mirror Coat, they let they incoming danmaku hit them and sent a powerful beam right back at the dolls, disintegrating them. A nearby Sandshrew cast Sandstorm, lowering the visibility of the area, but also taking out more dolls.

An Abomasnow and Vanillish cast Hail and Diamond Dust, and Pikachu topped it off with a Thunderbolt, aiming it point blank at Alice, who could barely see anything.

The thunderbolt hit Alice in her stomach, causing her to take a knee.

This is chaotic..! I think I'll have to do something a little drastic! Alice thought to herself.

Testing "Goliath Doll"

FLASH!!*

A doll that looked exactly the same as Alice's dolls, except it was many times bigger, appeared in a blue light.

"Goliath! Do not kill these creatures, they are controlled... but keep them away from me!" Alice ordered the doll, in which the latter nodded silently. The doll kicked the approaching Pokémon away, while plucking some off of their legs. A Gengar and an Umbreon charged a Shadow Ball and launched it at Goliath, it wasn't very effective, but it managed to kick up some smoke. Meanwhile, Butterfree, Weedril and Ariados used String Shot to tie up the giant doll's legs. Finally, a singular Psyduck used Confusion, after the Goliath got the dust out of it's eyes. The Confusion hit and the now disoriented doll tipped over.

"Hahahaha!! Your doll may have been worrying... but in the end it was no match for my invincible army!" Roxanne gloated, the still confused Goliath got up, looked down at the injured Alice and grabbed her.

"Oh la la! And as a bonus, your own puppet get to put you out of your misery!" The ghost girl was ecstatic, "now my beautiful puppet, make some music with that girl's screams!"

Goliath started to squeeze Alice, and the puppeteer could feel her ribcage start to break, she screamed as her bones started to crack and fracture.

"What a wonderful scream! Your voice is a perfect mix between a mezzo-soprano and a soprano! It's magnificent!" Roxanne complimented, Alice was barely conscious, but she managed to squeak out a sentence.

"Huuuuh? What was that sweetheart? I can't quite hear what you're saying!"

"You should pay attention more often... Roxanne." Alice said weakly.

RIP!*

Roxanne came to a grim realization, she turned around. Only to see him.

"Wha- how did-" Roxanne saw the puffball, and three dolls that assisted him, "how did you set him free? Alice Margatroid, answer me!"

"Take a good look, sweetheart..." Alice hinted at the ghost, and she did. Even though Alice couldn't use her hands, that didn't stop her. So she decided to take off her shoe and use her feet to control the dolls!

"Clever. Very very clever, Alice Margatroid. But, have you forgotten? I have an entire army of Pokémon. And I'll-" Roxanne was interrupted mid-sentence as a Psyduck went flying past her head. Kirby had soundly defeated the entire Pokémon army, in under a minute, no less.

"W-well, you'll still die to your town doll!" As soon as the ghost claimed that, the confusion wore off on Goliath. The giant doll let her master down gently.

"Uh... uhhhh... Kirby's mouth should still be shut..."

It wasn't. The dolls had neatly undid the sewing, and Kirby could use Inhale again. The Star Warrior threateningly approached Roxanne, the ghost girl fell on her backside.

"W-wait! I never would have actually cut you up! It's just in our nature as Boo's to scare people! Is that so wrong??" Roxanne panicked while scurrying away from Kirby, but it was too late. Kirby opened his mouth and began to inhale.

"Wait, Kirby!" Alice said, the puffball stopped himself from inhaling while Alice limped over time Roxanne.

"I'll let you go... if you let know what's going on!" Alice said, Roxanne nodded eagerly, anything to not get sucked up.

"W-well, King Boo, fell in love with this chick named Kogasa Tatara, who looks pretty average if you ask me. And he decided to host a wedding for anyone who wants to celebrate their marriage! And-"

"Quit being cheeky and answer the question."

"Right! So basically, in 10 hours, Twilight Time will commence. And they'll be husband and wife. A-and there are more people like me, who guard King Boo."

"How many more?"

"U-um... I think 4 or 5 more."

"Continue."

"So one of the guards are really old. And it's been presumed that they're a Terracotta warrior. A-and-"

"Ok, ok. I've heard enough."

"Really? W-will you let me go now?!"

Alice looked at the ghost the same way Shinki would look at lowly demon.

"No... you don't deserve to keep going after what you pulled. Kirby, you know what to do."

"Poyo!"

"W-wait please, I'll- ah! AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" The ghost was promptly sucked up and swallowed by Kirby. Alice took a deep breath and put her shoe back on.

"Now... it's over..." Alice said as she fell unconscious.

Roxanne, the Foxy Ghost Lady

Status: Retired!

END*

Hey guys! If you saw my wall, you would see that I might move NXT to a monthly schedule, I'm still not sure if it'll happen. I guess we will have to wait and see.

A little insight about Roxanne... her name was taken from a song of the same name from the band Police. The song itself is about a guy falling for a prostitute (if you don't know what that is, ask your mom lol). NXT's version of Roxanne was also a prostitute, but as soon as she somehow got a job and things started to look up for her. She got hit by a car and died.

...that got dark really fast.

Some lighter news, my birthday is next Saturday!

Anyways that's all for now, I hoped you enjoyed the chapter, and always look both ways before you cross the street.

Epilogue*

"I wonder if we'll ever get back to the others..." Youmu said wistfully.

"I hope we do too..." Meta Knight agreed, they two swordies kept walking until they both stopped.

"Come out. Coward." Meta Knight said as he turned around to see an eccentric looking ghost, he had baggy colorful pants, with a blue belt that had 'OH YEAH!' on it, and a orange beanie on his head.

"Ugh, another ghost..." Youmu said, looking pale, "Meta Knight. You want to take this one?"

"No."

"What do you mean no? You know I hate ghosts!!"

"You don't understand Youmu." Meta Knight said, he kicked the swordswomen toward the ghost.

"H-hey! Damn you! What do you think you're doing?!"

"I'm teaching you 'Lesson One.'"

"And just what could that be? Huh?"

"You..."

"Must face your fear!!"